Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-06
THE RAGE FOR rALTsMANS.

restOrer. Fl. 81. b.
THE RAGE FOR rALIsMANs.
The FavOrits Fetch of Mrs Lar gtry, Sarah
Berphardt and Others.
Chicago Mail.
1t is the fashion now to have fetch
something to love, to chide, to beat. to
swear by, to dream on, to talk to, to rea-
son with and to worship as nothing NOR
tal or material is Worshiped. It nav be
q button without ss2ank, picked up from
the marble Slab in Turkish bath; ban
Gle found in street. Car with an indie
cipherable monogram on one side and 8
date on the other, in which case there
will be fatality in the letters aud luck in
the numbers, combine them as one may
Such things IS dsggers, cid coins, mad
stones, oyster pearls, ocean pebbles, mug
gets, petrjtied stones, opals, amethysis
and comedians are dearly pr1zed, and in
jewels old designs, such as wings, claws,
cpurs, foils, cubes and the like, obtsined
or purchased under strange circum
stances.
There is no fetch like luck penny.
Lst ssd-eyed newsboy sell you d paper
On "dismsl night when no stars give
light" when the heavens are weeping,
the winds wailing, and the gas lamps
flicker, and 1t he crosses your palm with
az old coin make it your fetch, and
straightway it becomes possessed with
the magic of Desdemona's handkerchief.
Find dime and let lefJ-hauded, blue
eyed smith engrave snake in the act OF
swallowing itself tail first, and you have
the Talmudic emblem as old as supersti-
ton itself. A fetch to be magical must
have been consecrated by pathos, valOr,
generosity or some gentler sentiment.
The fancy comes to society Indirectly
from the stage, for actors, next to negroes
and mariners, are of all professions the
most superstitious.
Mrs. Langfry wears on one OF her long,
tspering fingers turquoise as big ana
beautiful IS the gem Shylock mourned
for. The ring and she are inseparable
There is never glove so snug that it
cannot be coaxed over the soil aire, END
on the stage, when 1t might | e considered
poor taste to wear it in view, Tue stone
is turned toward the palm or dropped in
the bosom Of her bodice. Both the gif;
and the wish were bestowed by royalty
Nine. Cavalazzi has small ivory cru
ciflx, the gift Of her dying mother, who
| babe her cherish 1t with reverence and
! burn taper before it whenever the way
seemed dark and dreary. In her state
room On the ocean mad winds and
wild waves have no terror fer he1
while burns the sacred taper at the
| foot of the ivory cross, and in the theate1
no earthly power could induce her 10 ~
befor the footlights until her devotions
had been made. Her husband, Charles
Mapleson, has ceased to laugh ct her, and
almost believe that the light of the
cross and the light OF the tiny dip light
her pretty feet through the intricscies Of
the dance.
Sarah Bernhsrdt has an antique girdle
made Of medallioGs, On which are the
signs of the zodiac inEsuperb chasing
The zone was a gift from Napoleon, who
received it from AbdGllsh Bey Of
| Egypt. She is never without it;
sometimes it is worn ABOUT rheI
! dress and sometimes around her neck. Il
holds the gathers OF house and stage
dresses and always encircles her nigut.
robe. Aside from the worship OF the
girdle, she loves knife, "because it cuts
and is true-cruelly true" In all great
undertakings she keeps blade in heI
hand or before her eyes as reminder
that failure may be mended but Fever
made perfect.
| Mary Anderson loves pearl because ii
is pure and cold. Cempsnini pins his
fsith to prune, and there is no time il
the year when the stone or fruit of tbs
black sticky CONNECTION may not be
found IN his vest pocket Ellen
Terry's fetch is { bottle with pat
ent stopper-Which is never empty, be-
cause the cork remains. Nine. Patti likes
the ivy because it cliDgs snd is poison
Gus, and the leaf is faVorite design with
her.
Digb7 Bell has horror Of open draw
ers or open doors, and, no matter where
ne is, the temptation to "shut up" is if
resistible. On his way to the stage he
positively will not pass an open door.
There is little lady in ChicagO, the
wife OF popular singer, who is never
without her dagger. The blade il
as true bit of steel as -evel
was tempered, aud the weapon is worn
with every style of costume. One
night it came nesr trailing blood. Hel
husband was on the stage. singing aue
playing the part Of lover to beautiful
soprano. There was little more tervol
in the work than the wife liked, snd, ieav
| ing her box, she ran around on the stag,
and waited for the couple in the o. p. en-.
trance. Fortunately the husband was thu
first one to meet the jealous little woman
| bnt the third act wss more than trlft
late.